Thermo Fisher CEO was paid $5.5m

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The top executive at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. collected total compensation of $5.5 million last year, nearly double his 2010 pay package, according to a regulatory filing Monday.

Waltham-based Thermo Fisher, a leading laboratory science supplier, said its president and chief executive, Marc N. Casper, was paid a salary of $1 million and a bonus of $1.3 million in 2011. He was also awarded new stock options with an estimated market value of more than $3 million and given other compensation totaling $152,517, the documents said.